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New formula supersedes Priestley-Taylor equation for evaporation

March 12, 2019 Alvin Stone (CLEX)

Most people imagine that as temperature rises, evaporation increases. While that is true under specific circumstances, in general this is not the case. This is because when evaporation increases it causes a surface to cool and thereby reducing […]

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A sharp, global picture of irrigation and wetland evaporation losses

January 28, 2018 Albert van Dijk (ANU)

New study uses detailed satellite observations to estimate evaporation from irrigation, water bodies and wetlands worldwide. A good part of our global surface and groundwater resources evaporates from wetlands, water bodies and irrigated areas. Some of this so-called ‘secondary’ […]

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Research: evaporative power of water may create electricity on a large scale

October 10, 2017 Tracy Staedter

Researchers have hit upon an alternative to the well-known alternatives to fossil fuels: evaporation. A team of scientists from Columbia University in New York City has estimated that energy harnessed from water evaporating from U.S. reservoirs and lakes with a surface […]

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